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Genetic Variation in Trophic Avoidance Behaviour Shows Fruit Flies are Generally Attracted to Bacterial Substrates Quantifying intrapopulation genetic variation in avoidance behaviours is essential to understand the ecology and evolution of behavioural defence from infection. Using an automated, high throughput s...

In other lab news, some really fun work on pathogen avoidance behaviour during feeding. We find that flies are generally attracted to several bacterial pathogens. Not linked to immunity, probably linked to appetite for protein
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